McAfee IntruShield Outperforms Competition in Network Intrusion Prevention Solution Category

Network Associates, Inc. (NYSE: NET), the leading provider of intrusion prevention solutions, today announced that the McAfee IntruShield has again been named the winner of CMP Media LLC's Network Computing Well-Connected Awards for intrusion prevention solutions. For the second consecutive year, McAfee IntruShield has won this prestigious award as the leading, innovative network intrusion prevention solution.

Network Associates McAfee IntruShield won the Well-Connected 2003 Award in the category of intrusion detection and prevention systems, and this year received top honors in the intrusion prevention systems category. McAfee IntruShield 4000 received the 'Editor's Choice' award from Network Computing in September 2003 in a comparative review of network intrusion prevention systems, which qualified the technology for the annual Well-Connected Award. According to the published review, "Scorching performance, robust attack detection and great analysis tools are the hallmarks of IntruShield 4000."

"The Well-Connected Awards are the only industry awards given by technologists based on real-world product testing and evaluation. We view all products, technologies and services from the same perspective as our readers — our peers — do," said Fritz Nelson, vice president and group publisher of Network Computing Enterprise Architecture Group. "This is an important distinction from any other award program — the products selected in the Well-Connected Awards are unique because they have been tested over an enterprise by our editors themselves. They are truly innovative solutions that work."

Network Computing's Well-Connected Awards honor exceptional technology products and services and represent the finest products and services the technology industry has to offer in networking. Winners of the Well-Connected Award were selected by Network Computing's technology editors from products that were tested and evaluated in their real-world labs in the previous year from May 2003 to May 2004. Network Computing announced the winners at a dinner ceremony on Monday, May 10, 2004 held in the Ovation Theater at the Aladdin Dessert Passage in Las Vegas.

A complete listing of all winners and finalists will be highlighted in the May 13th issue of Network Computing and online at http://www.networkcomputing.com .

"We are honored that Network Computing has again recognized Network Associates and the McAfee IntruShield intrusion prevention solution with a Well-Connected Award," said Raj Dhingra, vice president of corporate and product marketing at Network Associates. "By winning this award for the second year running, we have just raised the bar in the industry for providing innovative network IPS products to customers. This recognition further validates the widespread adoption of the McAfee IntruShield best-of-breed IPS solutions."

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